{"id":8588,"date":"2025-06-04T22:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T13:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=8588"},"modified":"2025-06-04T22:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T13:16:07","slug":"scan-eat-study-wearable-gadgets-assist-younger-learners-in-africa-thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=8588","title":{"rendered":"Scan, eat, study: Wearable gadgets assist younger learners in Africa thrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>60% of kids in Kenya can\u2019t depend on three meals a day. For youngsters in underserved communities throughout Africa, schooling stays the surest path to a safer future \u2014 and but starvation inhibits studying and optimum improvement for a majority of the nation\u2019s younger individuals. It&#8217;s a lot tougher to study on an empty abdomen.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;\"><iframe class=\"lazy lazy-hidden\" loading=\"lazy\" data-lazy-type=\"iframe\" data-src=\"https:\/\/players.brightcove.net\/1384193102001\/41XYD7gTx_default\/index.html?videoId=6371371034112\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/players.brightcove.net\/1384193102001\/41XYD7gTx_default\/index.html?videoId=6371371034112\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Find out how Food4Education scaled as much as serving half one million college meals a day with Cisco\u2019s assist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wawira Njiru, Founder and Government Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/food4education.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food4Education<\/a>, understood from the beginning that know-how was key to scaling up her operation dramatically sufficient to satisfy the each day dietary wants of lots of of hundreds of younger learners. Her group created a deeply tech-based resolution to assist remove starvation and be sure that school-going kids have entry to a wholesome meal.<\/p>\n<p>Food4Education\u2019s revolutionary Tap2Eat system\u2014a wise fee resolution\u2014ensures that kids in Kenya obtain nutritious meals at college. By utilizing a wearable wristband linked to a cellular pockets, kids can simply scan, eat, and deal with studying with out worrying about starvation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_53 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\" role=\"button\"><label for=\"item-69e7886abe2d6\" ><span class=\"\"><span style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input aria-label=\"Toggle\" aria-label=\"item-69e7886abe2d6\"  type=\"checkbox\" id=\"item-69e7886abe2d6\"><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=8588\/#Scaling_up_from_3000_to_over_500000_meals_served_each_day\" title=\"Scaling up from 3,000 to over 500,000 meals served each day\">Scaling up from 3,000 to over 500,000 meals served each day<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=8588\/#Subtle_analytics_and_know-how_to_optimize_outcomes\" title=\"Subtle analytics and know-how to optimize outcomes\">Subtle analytics and know-how to optimize outcomes<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=8588\/#Collaborating_to_realize_exponential_influence\" title=\"Collaborating to realize exponential influence\">Collaborating to realize exponential influence<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=8588\/#See_the_story_in_movement\" title=\"See the story in movement\">See the story in movement<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Scaling_up_from_3000_to_over_500000_meals_served_each_day\"><\/span><strong>Scaling up from 3,000 to over 500,000 meals served each day<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_473333\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-473333\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden size-medium wp-image-473333\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/blogs-images-new\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2025\/05\/F4E-04-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Wawira Njiru, Founder and Executive Director of Food4Education\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-473333\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/blogs-images-new\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2025\/05\/F4E-04-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Wawira Njiru, Founder and Executive Director of Food4Education\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/blogs-images-new\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2025\/05\/F4E-04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/blogs-images-new\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2025\/05\/F4E-04-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/blogs-images-new\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2025\/05\/F4E-04-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/blogs-images-new\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2025\/05\/F4E-04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/blogs-images-new\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2025\/05\/F4E-04.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-473333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Wawira Njiru, Founder and Government Director, Food4Education<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2018, Cisco awarded the World Citizen Prize for Youth Management to Wawira to create and take a look at this know-how. On the time, the group was feeding 3,000\u00a0 kids a day in Kenya. The funding enabled her group to scale from feeding 3,000 kids a day to 10,000 kids a day whereas additionally growing their <a href=\"https:\/\/food4education.org\/for-parents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tap2Eat<\/a> app and platform.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, we offered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisco.com\/c\/en\/us\/about\/csr\/community\/nonprofits\/technology-grant-program.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">know-how grant<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Webex<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/meraki.cisco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meraki<\/a>, and Cisco Umbrella applied sciences. Our know-how permits Food4Education to gather and use knowledge analytics to boost their operations and choices, mitigate cyber threats, and securely join their operations, platform, and program choices. We additionally offered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisco.com\/c\/en\/us\/about\/csr\/community\/nonprofits\/global-impact-cash-grants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">money grant<\/a> to allow additional improvement and scaling of their program to help 100,000 kids a day.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, over 500,000 kids can Tap2Eat lunch at college each day utilizing the Tap2Eat cellular app and wristband. The wristband makes use of Close to-Discipline Communication (NFC) know-how to allow seamless transactions, making certain college students obtain meals with out the necessity for money or bodily contact.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Subtle_analytics_and_know-how_to_optimize_outcomes\"><\/span><strong>Subtle analytics and know-how to optimize outcomes<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The system additionally verifies meal supply to kids and sends real-time knowledge on to Food4Education\u2019s operational dashboards. This method ensures correct monitoring of meal portions and uptake, enabling predictive analytics and more practical meal planning for the long run.<\/p>\n<p>Dad and mom, philanthropy, and authorities all contribute to the price of each day meals\u2014retaining this system regular, scalable, and sustainable.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_473336\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-473336\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden wp-image-473336\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/blogs-images-new\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2025\/05\/F4E-01-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Scanning a colorful Tap2Eat NFC wristband to access a nutritious meal at school. \" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-473336\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/blogs-images-new\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2025\/05\/F4E-01-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Scanning a colorful Tap2Eat NFC wristband to access a nutritious meal at school. \" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/blogs-images-new\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2025\/05\/F4E-01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/blogs-images-new\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2025\/05\/F4E-01-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/blogs-images-new\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2025\/05\/F4E-01-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/blogs-images-new\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2025\/05\/F4E-01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/blogs-images-new\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2025\/05\/F4E-01.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-473336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Scanning a colourful Tap2Eat NFC wristband to entry a nutritious meal at college.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The effectiveness of the answer is simple\u2014and the youngsters are getting nourished in additional methods than one. As Wawira places it, \u201cEach lunchtime, they\u2019ll simply go faucet, so it offers dad and mom a really excessive stage of visibility,\u201d she mentioned, \u201cnevertheless it additionally offers kids a way of possession and a way of pleasure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In colleges that serve meals via Tap2Eat, truancy is sort of zero. Tutorial efficiency is bettering, and attendance has elevated by as much as 30% in lots of areas.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Collaborating_to_realize_exponential_influence\"><\/span><strong>Collaborating to realize exponential influence<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Cisco\u2019s partnership with Food4Education, the revolutionary use of know-how, and a dynamic enterprise technique primarily based on community-centric options to longstanding challenges have helped this system develop and thrive.<\/p>\n<p>Food4Education is a social influence accomplice that embodies our shared values round fundamental diet and high quality schooling for everybody, whereas additionally demonstrating the ability of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisco.com\/c\/en\/us\/about\/purpose\/social-impact\/investments.html#~our-investment-model\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incubator mannequin for nonprofits<\/a>. By way of our distinctive method, we scout for nice concepts and dynamic founders, after which help their early-stage, tech-enabled ideas via implementation, validation, and scaling.<\/p>\n<p>For Cisco, funding nice concepts is barely the start. We carry one of the best of Cisco\u2014our know-how, our experience, and our innovation\u2014to the connection. Setting our non-profit companions up for long run success and sustainability is all the time our aim. And it\u2019s a aim shared with Wawira and Food4Education\u2014as she places it: \u201cI might write a ebook about our great relationship with Cisco!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She explains, \u201cCisco has given us follow-on funding to enhance our use of know-how throughout the group, from utilizing Meraki throughout our operation, discovering methods to attach all our gadgets which can be utilized in Tap2Eat throughout an enormous community of colleges, to serving to us by way of our conferencing and our capacity to speak and collaborate higher.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"See_the_story_in_movement\"><\/span><strong>See the story in movement<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>With Cisco\u2019s help, Food4Education is altering lots of of hundreds of lives day-after-day\u2014and counting\u2014fostering the subsequent era of learners and making ready them to take part totally within the fashionable economic system. To get the total story, <a href=\"https:\/\/video.cisco.com\/detail\/video\/6371371034112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch our newly launched documentary-style video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Share:<\/p>\n<p>\n  \t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>60% of kids in Kenya can\u2019t depend on three meals a day. For youngsters in underserved communities throughout Africa, schooling stays the surest path to a safer future \u2014 and but starvation inhibits studying and optimum improvement for a majority of the nation\u2019s younger individuals. It&#8217;s a lot tougher to study on an empty abdomen. 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